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Vinyl came back from the dead – and so did the bootleggers: inside the booming business of knock-off records
As LP sales boom in the UK, so has the illegal trade in poor-quality fakes. But the record detectives are fighting back
Among the vast array of albums Hutter had been caught trading were blue vinyl copies of Nirvana’s Nevermind and a red edition of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction, as well as Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy, the Clash’s London Calling, and two records by AC/DC. Illustration: Willa Gebbie and Christophe Gowans/The GuardianIn the UK, British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the umbrella group that speaks for record labels, employs a small team of people who monitor the illegal sale of music, and do their best to stamp it out. Illustration: Willa Gebbie and Christophe GowansEvans is a genial, matter-of-fact presence and music fan, whose last gig was Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, and who works alongside a slightly older colleague called Martin Thursby.
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